History

"It is only Nehru's vision that could have created a hotel as spectacular as The Ashok... The hotel spoke of the gumption of the country at that time, and for that, it was destined to be iconic."

Vaikom Satyagraha today remains as just another milestone while consolidating different instances from history covering India’s struggle for independence.

The deletable mutton biriyani of Azad hotel in Thiruvananthapuram is prepared just the way it was 78 years ago, when Meeran Pillai Pareed Kunju opened the doors of ‘Azad Pukka Travancore Biriyani’ for the first time in Vallakadavu.

Durgabai walked out of her own child marriage, helped draft the Constitution, set up key institutions and led the emancipation of women from the front.

Lieutenant Colonel Gurbachan Singh's idea would go on to halt the invading Chinese army on October 25, 1962. This is his untold story.

Deeply in love with her adopted homeland, one went to jail during the Quit India movement. The other became a guardian of the Himalayas, devoting her life to protecting it.

"With the defeat of the Marathas in 1818, connectivity between Pune and Mumbai assumed even more importance. A few years later, a military road branching off the Mumbai-Pune highway at Talegaon was constructed and linked to the barracks at Kirkee."

She wasn’t born an Indian national, and yet the passion that Nellie Sengupta had for the Freedom Struggle was one that deserved to be written about in history books.

“The petroglyphs… may be carved by our ancestors in the Neolithic Age, that is 7000-4000 BC. It is very hard to determine the exact period, but these petroglyphs are carved using metal tools, so that is one way of determining the period (of origin).”

Resting as the only window to a distant past of which little remains other than these ancient monuments, ILF aims to bring them back to public awareness and preservation, lest they are forgotten.